3909 - Gaston Gérard, Female Nude in the Studio

Gaston Gérard, Female Nude in the Studio a young woman with a scarf draped around her hips, standing in front of an easel with a suggested painting and a mixing palette, gazing at a statue of a cherub with her left hand resting against her cheek; a window box stands in front of the statue’s plinth; watercolour in a delicate style on paper, late 19th century, signed ‘Gaston Gérard’ in the lower left-hand corner, adhesive labels on the reverse, including the artist’s details, signs of age, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout cut-out approx. 32 x 24 cm. Artist information: actually Louis Gaston Gérard, French watercolourist (born 1859 in Saint-Mandé), pupil of Th. Midy and Jul. Lefebvre, worked in Paris; 1876-83: exhibited portraits and studies at the Salon; from 1885 onwards, primarily decorative watercolours; contributor to the *Revue d’ameublement*, the *Journal des Arts* and other periodicals; source: Thieme-Becker